Editing Guyot (section)

==History==
Guyots were first recognized in 1945 by [[Harry Hammond Hess]], who collected data using echo-sounding equipment on a ship he commanded during [[World War II]].<ref name="ShortHistory">{{cite book |last=Bryson |first=Bill |title=A Short History of Nearly Everything |location=New York |publisher= Broadway |year=2003 |page=178 |isbn=076790818X}}</ref> His data showed that some undersea mountains had flat tops. Hess called these undersea mountains "guyots", after the Department of Geosciences building at Princeton.<ref name="JeaPg">{{cite book |last=Bryson |first=Bill |date=2004 |title=A Short History of Nearly Everything |publisher= Broadway Books |isbn=076790818X}}</ref> Hess postulated they were once volcanic islands that were beheaded by wave action, yet they are now deep under [[sea level]]. This idea was used to help bolster the theory of [[plate tectonics]].<ref name="ShortHistory" />